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Tweets from 2014/12

  1. RT @mcclure111: @vectorpoem @radiatoryang When I started doing this stuff in 2008 it was very easy to code a particular way and feel assure…
  2. RT @mcclure111: @vectorpoem @radiatoryang …that if you followed certain rules, your stuff would keep working on all platforms for a decade …
  3. RT @mcclure111: @vectorpoem @radiatoryang now just supporting an apple platform, any apple platform,is a full time job, 2yo software is not…
  4. Pushing up to bitbucket so that my #nanogenmo entry comes in in time (uh, in other time zones). Nice presentation, explanation comes later.
  5. …in reply to @v21
    @v21 errr... though it's pushing up at such an incredibly slow speed even the upload looks like it'll come later... bitbucket.org/v21/nanogenmo2014
  6. A student opposite is teaching another student matrices & eigenvectors from a booklet typeset in Computer Modern. Been there.
  7. Look at this beautiful #nanogenmo entry! I really can't deal. lczzz.me/download/the_seeker.pdf (by @thricedotted)
  8. RT @katierosepipkin: this is not working like i planned
  9. …in reply to @dogsdoingmath
    @mechapoetic @dreamfeeel I can confirm : it is uncompromising in physical form.
  10. …in reply to @fernantastic
    @compositeredfox Lots of crashes generally, but I'm on 4.6, not Yosemite. :/
  11. …in reply to @Rumpnissen14
    @Rumpnissen14 depends what you mean by codes? In the past week I've used Python, OpenFrameworks, Unity.
  12. …in reply to @Rumpnissen14
    @Rumpnissen14 I was returning to it after a long absence! It was uncomfortable at first, but I like it again now.
  13. RT @john_brindle: It has its own media, its own communities, its own organising spaces, and it has plenty of reasons to continue existing, …
  14. RT @john_brindle: - everything they say has already been said in a Gamasutra comments thread. GG has always been with us; they just didn't …
  15. RT @rachelbinx: I'm launching a brand new site today, monochome.com It's maps! On clothing! Custom maps on custom clothing! http:/…
  16. A day late, and still hastily done, but here's my #nanogenmo entry: github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2014/issues/154
  17. RT @courtneybolton: RT : NSA does *not* know what your Secret Santa gift is, they are only permitted to store metadata about the giver and …
  18. …in reply to @fridgehead
    @fridgehead I'm with you, there.
  19. What's happening?
  20. Is it wrong to retweet obvious bots when they post things you like?
  21. RT @djolder: The response, always a bandaid, never a cure, must be expensive and optically a game changer: a 911 computer system overhaul, …
  22. fw.to/gEgDPpM FWIW, I don't think that Clue's jokes about Samantha _are_ a pastiche of sexist culture, but rather just sexist.
  23. …in reply to @v21
    @v21 They are funny, though. But there's a reason they don't make Carry On films any more.
  24. …in reply to @BRKeogh
    @BRKeogh Don't you dare do anything to encourage them to update even more frequently.
  25. …in reply to @martinhollis
    @martinhollis ISIHAC has been on for 40 years!
  26. RT @getdizzzy: the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that The Wall was better than the stuff Pink Floyd did wit…
  27. …in reply to @helvetica
    @helvetica @AsherVo 4.6 font stuff is native SDF, it works great.
  28. RT @TheQuinnspiracy: If nothing else this shit tonight has got me thinking even harder about creating alternative routes to indie sustainab…
  29. RT @State_of_Play: Lumino City has arrived! Download it here store.steampowered.com/app/205020/ #luminocity
  30. Last night I went out and got drunk and then I got home and fell asleep watching this youtube.com/watch?v=UHjkMThH0aE
  31. …in reply to @robertthomassnd
    @dizzybanjo Yep! Don't think the full list of guest contributors has been publicly released, but there's some great people on there.
  32. …in reply to @undefined
    @_saljam Thanks! The music was by Popolo, who were an Edinburgh band, long since disbanded. :'(
  33. …in reply to @SimoRoth
    @SimoRoth Double Star is great fun
  34. RT @auriea: i may get into oil painting but theres still something wonderful about the programmed look of computer brush strokes http://t.c…
  35. RT @HonestWilliam: How to make a game in the new wave Read: tl.gd/n_1sisueq
  36. …in reply to @State_of_Play
    @State_of_Play CONGRATS GUYS!!
  37. Thinking about Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawings cmuems.com/2013/a/golan/09/02/melanie-nailed-it/
  38. …in reply to @HonestWilliam
    @HonestWilliam what, a cornetto? you should eat properly, man
  39. RT @betsythemuffin: In September's print edition of @ModelViewMedia (model-view-culture.myshopify.com/products/model-view-culture-digital-subscription), I wrote an article called "Gamification, Abu…
  40. RT @betsythemuffin: In it, I observed that fair-weather allies are motivated by "point systems" (ie retweet counts) & parasocial interactio…
  41. RT @betsythemuffin: Inclusion on a certain person's recent public blocklist can be considered a point system under that model.
  42. RT @betsythemuffin: When people take active pride in membership, they're definitely counting it as an unlocked achievement, as it were.
  43. RT @TheOnion: Obama Calls For Turret-Mounted Video Cameras On All Police Tanks onion.com/1I10hbO
  44. Remember McZee?
  45. theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/04/-sp-kentucky-route-zero-review-best-game-of-2014 I agree with every part of this piece about Kentucky Route Zero.
  46. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern Why does every way of getting into space have to either deeply weird or incredibly scary, or both?
  47. RT @tom_watson: According to the Guardian, I "lashed out" at publishers and editors last night. I suppose I did, a little bit. https://t.co…
  48. RT @whenim30: I should be super hot by the time I'm 30
  49. RT @whenim30: by the time i'm 30 my life will be complete #hopefully
  50. RT @whenim30: By the time I'm 30 I want all my shit together, I mean ALL of it!!!
  51. …in reply to @ammonite
    @ammonite make it so it does a thing when you click a thing! that's the best part!
  52. …in reply to @haze_s1
    @haze______ I'm already super hot?
  53. …in reply to @Dick_Hogg
    @Dick_Hogg are you sure that's legal?
  54. RT @smestorp: this nanogenmo is really good preview.studiomoniker.com/alltheminutes/book-v0.0.txt (via a tab i had open from when someone posted it sorry i don't remember)
  55. …in reply to @PersocomNina
    @hentaiphd it's you
  56. …in reply to @fridgehead
    @fridgehead they're unlikely to actually rub? look for frequent collisions, velocities at an angle to the collision normals.
  57. …in reply to @fridgehead
    @fridgehead ah, great! I was hoping I hadn't just explained what you already had to you
  58. RT @a_man_in_black: More detail, since people are asking: sjwautoblocker is a scam to get personal info from people who ask to be added or …
  59. RT @a_man_in_black: The sjwautoblocker is bad fuckin' news. Do not brag about being on it, do not get yourself on the list, don't try to ge…
  60. I suddenly got very excited about making an esolang, then I remembered I already had.
  61. @katierosepipkin did you ever see this thing I made? v21.io/games/assembly/
  62. …in reply to @everestpipkin
    @katierosepipkin you can calculate the fibonacci sequence with it! click and drag to change a cell.
  63. …in reply to @brandonnn
  64. …in reply to @v21
    Just ran upstairs to get a notepad so I can keep notes as I try to decode how it works.
  65. …in reply to @undefined
    @mooonmagic @brandonnn he just likes cleavages, i guess?
  66. RT @logodaedalus: Do you have Yosemite with Firefox / Thunderbird? Congrats, all your keystrokes and mouse movements are being logged. http…
  67. LRT made me cry
  68. …in reply to @hunktears
    @hunktears wtf tho
  69. …in reply to @hunktears
    @hunktears idek what two of those are
  70. …in reply to @LovedayBrooke
  71. Well, it didn't buffer for _me_
  72. RT @Dick_Hogg: Have you seen this amazing cross section of an undersea fibre-optic cable? dickhogg.tumblr.com/
  73. …in reply to @blaine
    @blaine I feel the same about robots.
  74. RT @jimrossignol: "Osborne’s proposals to cut the size of the state back to a level last seen before the second world war" http://t.co/gPZ7…
  75. RT @NewYorker: “This isn’t just budget-cutting: it is social engineering on a grand scale.” @JohnCassidy’s take on @George_Osborne: http://…
  76. "We've been driven against one another for so long that I don't know if it's possible to work together anymore." maddy-myers.squarespace.com/blog/2014/1/27/gladiators-in-the-ring
  77. …in reply to @garethbriggs
    @garethbriggs Can you make it so I never have to play the Hat Game ever again?
  78. RT @rclarke: .@v21 has come to take @HilariousCow back to the home planet vine.co/v/OvYg6YnZI77
  79. RT @ibull: Why people don't trust. Much integrity, v wow. RT @roqchams: "We thought they were transporting real sick people..." http://t.c…
  80. RT @audiosprite: @ibull @10rdBen @roqchams cool of the NYPD to give future protesters reason not to yield to wailing ambulances
  81. …in reply to @AurenSnyder
    @whatisian @mooonmagic aw, c'mon. JS Joust while walking from one end of Manhattan to another. JS Joust while hoovering. JS Joust/paintball.
  82. …in reply to @AurenSnyder
    @whatisian @mooonmagic You're the only one playing Joust! It's just you're also trying to shoot some dudes, and not be shot yourself.
  83. …in reply to @AurenSnyder
    @whatisian @mooonmagic I mean, walking the length of Manhattan is in no way a single-player experience either.
  84. "I am clearly in the right. See my skyward finger; see my bemused and condescending face." tmblr.co/ZTt3Sy1XHeA-u
  85. RT @compositeredfox: Shopping around for some short term Unity work for january/february. Hit me up if you know of anything!
  86. This simulation of walking the West Highland Way made me feel things philome.la/HarryGiles/ghost-highland-way
  87. RT @dbaker_h: just found a font whose glyphs are layed out such that typing all the keys on the keyboard in succession results in.. http://…
  88. RT @dbaker_h: wow, seems like people reeeally like that font tweet. guess I'd better link to the font: fontsquirrel.com/fonts/aierbazzi
  89. RT @rachelsklar: "How I sanitized the feminist outrage over the Montreal massacre" ottawacitizen.com/news/national/page-how-i-sanitized-the-feminist-outrage-over-the-montreal-massacre/ - Dec. 6, 1989
  90. …in reply to @philippawarr
    @philippawarr I am sorry I bailed on that game! How did Vampire Blue end up?
  91. …in reply to @philippawarr
    @philippawarr ach, there are worse fates.
  92. …in reply to @philippawarr
    @philippawarr at least you tried!
  93. This is somehow very reassuring: boyfriendtwin.tumblr.com/
  94. "It really is just a computer on the Internet;" tilde.club/~ford
  95. RT @brandonnn: looking at the photos @EmpMuseum sent over & shedding a proud lil tear over how nice the @TenyaWanyaTeens setup looks http:/…
  96. I'm watching God Help The Girl and it's not very good. :/
  97. …in reply to @edjeff
    @edjeff I blame you for reminding me it existed and I hadn't watched it.
  98. …in reply to @v21
    I just wish any of the characters had any charm?
  99. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro "this drawing, here tonight, represents significant cultural change within the videogames industry!"
  100. Thinking about tooling around in GTA listening to the radio and watching the landscape pass by.
  101. …in reply to @v21
    "walking simulator"
  102. "if you don't care about winning, why do you play games?"
  103. …in reply to @unitygames
  104. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow dunno, but I bet @TomNullpointer does
  105. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin @alicebell Wait, wait, wait. I agree abut the thing you're complaining about, but that's a weird definition elsewhere.
  106. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin @alicebell (ie, that's the position of people who say that "walking simulators", like Proteus & Dear Esther aren't games)
  107. A cookbook where every recipe assumes you need to use up leftovers or byproducts from another recipe.
  108. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb no, no no! I want _only_ leftovers recipes. I want dependency hell!
  109. …in reply to @oopsohno
    @oopsohno ahhhhhhhhhhhhh amazing!
  110. …in reply to @JulieHeyde
    @JulieHeyde I tried it out a little. The OSX client is a hideous Java thing that took ages to set up and I never really got working.
  111. …in reply to @JulieHeyde
    @JulieHeyde I mean, they have a native one on the way... (Similar boat here with BitBitcket and approaching size limits)
  112. RT @JonasTarestad: After the game was released, the original sources were buried in the digital heap, Causing people to believe we made up …
  113. RT @thehouseofindie: Help us fund screenshake2015, the international indie game festival in Antwerp, Belgium: indiegogo.com/projects/screenshake2015-indie-game-festival #ss2015
  114. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin I mean, this is basically just an argument about definitions, otherwise I'd agree with you entirely. But!
  115. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin For me the point of "interaction" is the immediate response. You poke a thing and it goes "squish".
  116. …in reply to @robertasaliani
  117. RT @lorenschmidt: some beautiful early character based visual art by Duane Palyka
  118. …in reply to @TomNullpointer
  119. RT @HilariousCow: Found out the other day that if you want an ebooks version of you, you have to go make it yourself. Bullshit. I am my own…
  120. …in reply to @mink_ette
    @mink_ette @michelmcbride @lauraehall @puzzletheory "Gary Steele" apparently (I spent some time researching this today)
  121. @marcoarment have you seen this? mightyvision.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/compatibility.html (on back-compatibility on iOS & OSX)
  122. MT @Doomlaser: All the slides from @ivansafrin's Introduction to Game Programming Class at NYU
  123. …in reply to @realnoyb
    @realnoyb How do you feel about Desert Golfing's retcon of their bottomless pits?
  124. …in reply to @realnoyb
    @realnoyb No, they reset to the tee (same as offscreen). But in the latest update, the pits are now filled with water.
  125. "and Twitter took a month to deal with her complaint." reuters.com/article/2014/09/30/us-pakistan-women-internet-idUSKCN0HP0Q620140930
  126. RT @johl: The Pirate Bay raided and shut down. Original founder Peter Sunde @brokep explains why he's glad it's gone blog.brokep.com/2014/12/09/the-pirate-bay-down-forever/
  127. …in reply to @rclarke
    @rclarke dibs on "Adjective Animal" as a studio name
  128. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow @rclarke "Three-piece neo-psychedelic rock band from Sale, Manchester" :(
  129. Some context : British torture in Northern Ireland alicerosebell.com/blog/2014/12/10/scientists-torture-and-history
  130. The pathos of someone on Stack Overflow who wants to help but can't because his reputation isn't high enough to post the link.
  131. …in reply to @adventuresofrob
    @adventuresofrob i mean, sure, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't go for it _now_.
  132. RT @Atul_Gawande: 11/Doctors found prisoners with broken feet and still approved putting them into standing positions for up to 52 hours (p…
  133. …in reply to @fadesingh
    @fadesingh @nebogeo The real hook of the Raspberry Pi is that you don't have to have a computer already to play. (Just keyboard, mouse, scr-
  134. Narrowing my eyes at twitter.com/Nero/followers_you_follow (okay, I forgive @Horse_ebooks)
  135. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo nope :<
  136. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo I was writing a followup! Followup reads:
  137. …in reply to @v21
    @joonturbo I think you can iterate over serialized properties and then draw the default SerializedObject inspector for each one, though.
  138. …in reply to @v21
    @joonturbo But I've never had that much joy with that.
  139. RT @SpindleyQ: A sharp critique of maker culture: tinyletter.com/metafoundry/letters/metafoundry-15-scribbled-leatherjackets Basing my identity on making stuff was one of the least healthy t…
  140. RT @moscaddie: hi i'm a white man aged 26-34 with parents as a financial safety net and i'm here to tell u to quit ur job and do what u love
  141. I can't decide whether it's a good idea to tweet some of Milo's poetry. On the one hand, it's really awful, on the other, really hateful.
  142. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb That would require typing it up, and ... ugh. no. Also, as I said, it is really very hateful.
  143. Oh, fuck it. Sorry. Here are some excerpts from 1 of 4 self-published poetry collections that Nero has put out.
  144. RT @benoonbenoon: "Nemesis" #milosophy
  145. RT @benoonbenoon: #milosophy I'm afraid they get really awful ...
  146. RT @benoonbenoon: #milosophy I'm done now. "Fylfot" is a swastika btw.
  147. …in reply to @martinhollis
    @martinhollis @lizardengland "A Game Design Vocabulary" is the best intro book I've read. I wish I could have bought it instead of "Art of"
  148. RT @LibyaLiberty: "Does torture work?" as a question needs to be put in the bin with "Is slavery commercially feasible?" & "Can genocide he…
  149. RT @hollygramazio: This week I guess I made a block-pushing puzzle game about the changes in UK pornography law? hollygramazio.net/blog/2014/12/11/pornography-for-beginners
  150. RT @saladinahmed: LIGHTEN UP! IT'S JUST TV! Except our govt. literally got ideas for torture by watching "24": slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2008/07/the_bauer_of_suggestion.html htt…
  151. RT @RamiroCorbetta: Situations like this show how problematic it is that roughly 6 companies control 90% of the markets where we can make m…
  152. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @dr_d_king it really is! ahhh :)
  153. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @dr_d_king (Also, cc @hollygramazio and @Minkette, who invented many of those games)
  154. …in reply to @metasynthie
    (via @metasynthie) People who don't believe they're immune to media persuasion are less affected by media persuasion.
  155. …in reply to @raiganburns
    @raiganburns par for the course, nowadays, though?
  156. …in reply to @mountain_ghosts
    @jcoglan how would you apply multiple effects in parallel?
  157. …in reply to @mountain_ghosts
    @jcoglan as a games programmer, I rarely find this style useful - I usually need a way to cancel the fade halfway through. (applies to both)
  158. …in reply to @dr_d_king
    @dr_d_king @patrickashe yeah! me! (as commissioned work for Tiny Games at Hide and Seek: a collaboration w @hollygramazio & the team there)
  159. saw a picture of a vending machine, and it made me cry
  160. …in reply to @vorrintal
    @vorrintal reminded me of a play, which reminded me of a band that meant a lot to me.
  161. …in reply to @v21
    @vorrintal (Ballboy - ballboy.bandcamp.com). That's not quite the entire feeling, but... not got the words to capture it all.
  162. RT @hannahnicklin: This is angry pigeon
  163. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin my companions on this journey
  164. RT @aliendovecote: i made a new game called Contrition aliendovecote.com/uploads/twine/contrition.html
  165. The 25 is ridiculous. It's 3 am, comes by every 5 minutes, and it's too full to pick anyone up.
  166. …in reply to @v21
    Wikipedia tells me it's the busiest route in London? Now had the third full one go past since I've been here.
  167. .@caraellison mentioned Duncan Fyfe's "The Dogs of Summer" in a post, so I had to read it again. It's so good. hitselfdestruct.com/2013/08/the-dogs-of-summer.html
  168. …in reply to @mink_ette
  169. RT @nebogeo: Dyadic device: a (browser based) 4 shaft loom simulation kairotic.org/dyadic-device-a-4-shaft-loom-simulation/
  170. RT @rom_txt: FROGGER REACHED HOME! HOME WAS OCCUPIED JUMPED AGAINST WALL OVERRUN BY VEHICLE MOVED OUT OF BOUNDS DROWNED IN RIVER - #frogge…
  171. RT @LovedayBrooke: Reading yet another article on personal happiness, and wondering if this focus isn't to the detriment of broader societa…
  172. RT @LovedayBrooke: All this inspired by: digest.bps.org.uk/2014/12/why-do-friendly-people-usually-lead.html which suggest friendly people = happier people because they don't engage wi…
  173. …in reply to @ftrain
    @ftrain fond memories as a teenager walking repeatedly past Auntie Annes eating the sameples...
  174. …in reply to @failnaut
    @failnaut @asponge Yesterday she went to Epping Forest and never came back. All I know is the series of worrying tweets she sent.
  175. …in reply to @failnaut
    @failnaut @asponge (She's fine -- but look at her feed)
  176. …in reply to @failnaut
    @failnaut I'm really sorry for scaring you.
  177. …in reply to @dartt
    @dartt @failnaut bah, okay, chalking that up as a failure and deleting. sorry!
  178. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow hahah, this morning I fixed something up to export data to csv
  179. RT @hollygramazio: Although OH MY GOD images for digital things are tedious compared to games where you say "hey you're in a park" by takin…
  180. RT @hollygramazio: "At this point players will be able to hear the sound of birds, on account of trees are already there and birds hang out…
  181. Split string on lies.
  182. RT @alexstapleton: modlabupenn.org/underactuated-rotor/ "The hinge geometry couples blade lead-and-lag oscillations to a change in blade pitch." This is …
  183. RT @davewalker: Cartoon: options for small online businesses after EU changes VAT rules on 1 Jan #EUVAT davewalker.cc/vatmoss-cartoon/ http://t.co/…
  184. "Okay, I sent the tweet" [Several seconds pass] "He favved it already"
  185. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin oh, shit :< here's hoping that you'll wake up tomorrow and be fine.
  186. RT @theevocater: liberalism is *why* @Patreon believes that it has an imperative to allow awful fucking shit on its site despite publicly s…
  187. RT @HeaneyDaily: To work... is to move a certain mass through a certain distance, is to pull your weight and feel exact and equal to it.
  188. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar okay, I just read the Serious Eats page, and was slightly confused until I remembered Americans don't have kettles.
  189. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar right! This was the most aggravating thing when I was staying in New York this year (the whistle was broken, I drink a lot of tea)
  190. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar Like, instant noodles here (that's what we call them) : boil kettle, pour over noodles, wait a few minutes, eat.
  191. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar Boiling water is usually : pick up kettle, swish it a bit to check there's enough water in, push switch, wait a minute or two.
  192. …in reply to @iainl7
    @iainl7 @jennatar haha! yep.
  193. …in reply to @SnowballPoetry
  194. RT @haikus_by_KN: Indie game developers: most make very little money, a few are very wealthy indeed. Makes for a strange interpersonal dyna…
  195. ᴍᴏɴᴇʏ ɪs ᴠᴇʀʏ ɪᴍᴘᴏʀᴛᴀɴᴛ ғᴏʀ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ᴘᴇʀsᴏɴ. I ᴡᴏʀᴋ ᴀᴛ ʟᴇᴀsᴛ 5 ᴛᴏ 6 ʜᴏᴜʀs ᴀ ᴅᴀʏ ᴀɴᴅ ғᴜʟғɪʟʟ ᴍʏ ᴀʟʟ ɴᴇᴄᴇssɪᴛɪᴇs.
  196. The secret to the Uber economy is wealth inequality qz.com/312537
  197. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin @haikus_by_KN is it as common for financially successful people to be intermingled socially in other fields?
  198. what's your favorite thing you've made that no-one else cares about?
  199. RT @leighalexander: oh this is SO awesome. protesters in love: "when they get arrested, you try to get arrested with them.” http://t.co/DeO…
  200. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow simulate, don't simulate.. what matters is conveying "Day 34... Supplies are running low. I think we will die in this place."
  201. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar I didn't know who you meant, and then I googled him. It's Dr Miracles! Yeah, he's great.
  202. I ran for the entirety of a Serial episode! I'm sweaty now.
  203. @patrickashe relevant to your recent interests? @netgrind/545541305120874497?s=09
  204. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe ahh, great :)
  205. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern after all that chat about how great Randall Park is I was having last night! This sucks.
  206. Angry-not-angry that if you want to make a game with Linear B, you can't do that using the standard Unity text component.
  207. RT @politic_animal: A friendly bird gave me this. Scale of council cuts just announced, colour-coded by council political control http://t.…
  208. …in reply to @undefined
    @adragonbee wait, but...
  209. RT @patrickashe: We need more initiatives for preserving and publicly showcasing the other and more radical histories and stories of video …
  210. RT @mcclure111: That is the kind of statement that conveys you don't understand the situation without conveying a willingness to listen if …
  211. RT @patrickashe: @brandonnn I have 5 but used to have more.
  212. I'm sitting in an Eat just by the Westfield center, refusing to do shopping. This article on Valve economics is great gameboat.org/post/105534114127/the-bank-of-gaben
  213. …in reply to @srules
    @srules did you do the run?
  214. …in reply to @srules
    @srules good work! (Me too)
  215. @drinkrelaxplay Is this afternoon a good time for me to come round and get the Doom Piano working?
  216. …in reply to @TQuillfeldt
    @TQuillfeldt I'd be happy to take it off your hands, if it's still going.
  217. …in reply to @mink_ette
    @mink_ette You coming out to OLL?
  218. …in reply to @mink_ette
    @mink_ette Yus. In fact, I need to leave soon so I can fix the piano in time.
  219. RT @ranarama: Was wondering what Kenta Cho had been up to late. First post on his site is called "I Have Created 50 Games in 2014". http://…
  220. …in reply to @mink_ette
    @mink_ette it's not a euphemism! It's the DOOM PIANO
  221. …in reply to @ivansafrin
    @ivansafrin I found a virus counter under a piano.
  222. I keep hearing the JS Joust registration sound. I can't tell if it's my phone, charging hidden under a piano, or someone playing the game.
  223. …in reply to @v21
    (my phone plays that when I get a text. I have checked both possibilities, and neither appears to be happening)
  224. …in reply to @StevieB64
    @StevieB64 we went downstairs ! Come down and hang?
  225. RT @dril: the numa numa man just bougt a $70million house and im here at the library trying to photocopy a fruit roll up
  226. RT @nice_tips_bot: please, daisies and clover are especially easy to braid into a flower crown. their stems are really thin to work with. o…
  227. …in reply to @BRKeogh
    @BRKeogh In Ethiopia Christmas is celebrated on Jan 7th...
  228. RT @katierosepipkin: we made a generated land of words + stories + lines // a city for every single one of you // inflorescence.city
  229. …in reply to @undefined
    @mooonmagic @lorenschmidt did y'all ever play Bonsai Barber?
  230. …in reply to @undefined
    @mooonmagic @lorenschmidt and when they go on holiday, you get postcards
  231. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @mooonmagic @lorenschmidt would I forget Toca Boca Hair Salon 2, now, though?
  232. …in reply to @undefined
    @mooonmagic @patrickashe @lorenschmidt don't need to be 3 to appreciate Toca (TBHS2 is probably my favourite iOS game)
  233. @MrTastyFace Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
  234. …in reply to @nice_tips_bot
  235. …in reply to @nice_tips_bot
  236. …in reply to @nice_tips_bot
    @nice_tips_bot still shan't
  237. …in reply to @nice_tips_bot
    @nice_tips_bot shan't iron microfibers, but admittedly I don't own any.
  238. …in reply to @nice_tips_bot
    @nice_tips_bot I live on the edge! SHAN'T!
  239. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe what has @hannahnicklin done to you!?
  240. …in reply to @nice_tips_bot
    @nice_tips_bot okay, finally I agree with you.
  241. …in reply to @v21
    In other RPS username news, someone is called "v21v21v21". It's not me, and I don't agree with their views on modern art.
  242. suddenly realized earlier that I have a bunch to do in the next 24 hrs. So I came home, cracked open a beer, and read essays on Duchamp.
  243. …in reply to @v21
    also eating olives
  244. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @LeehSl hate favving this
  245. …in reply to @undefined
    @heather_r he did amazing time-release jokes : crummy.com/2008/03/05/1
  246. inflorescence.city/ reading these words aloud to myself.enjoying the texture, the grammar, working out how to parse unicode into sounds.
  247. …in reply to @v21
    maybe i should collab with a sound-designer, and record. or maybe I should become sound-designer myself.
  248. RT @webbedspace: "I'm a machine that can do or be anything," says your computer, "and today I'm a flower. No web surfing, just silent, beau…
  249. I have seen neither ♫HARMONY SUMMER HARDPACK TAPE 11-IN-1♫ in any best-of-year lists, nor ♫ Tarantella Sicilienne ♫ alone. what the hell?
  250. too many projects wash over me, too large for me to grasp onto. i don't know if this is a failure of my grasping, or the seas.
  251. …in reply to @v21
    "i wanted to do that! my conception was so much larger, though. but this is /great/"
  252. …in reply to @v21
    the examples I think of right now have a purity of concept & execution that maybe I should abandon. just point at the idea, don't embody it.
  253. Internal conversation : Q: what's the best type of motion? A: parabolas
  254. …in reply to @HJosephineGiles
    @HarryGiles "I think I'm quite well known for having a sense of humour."
  255. RT @polm23: The Secret to Creating Fun Games I Learned By Making 50 Games in a Year by Kenta Cho (@abagames): gist.github.com/polm/05db396cf08b9ec2a81c
  256. RT @mcclure111: I just wanna link this again to stress how incredibly amazing it is twitter.com/sjalexander/lists/convo
  257. someone made a quine twitterbot, yesss twitter.com/onceuponaquine
  258. …in reply to @bossagames
    @BossaStudios @Gillespionage no little dangly bits? I could tell you wanted to...
  259. …in reply to @v21
    @v21 wait, fuck, Fjords as well?!
  260. …in reply to @ammonite
    @ammonite @BrandonN yeah, this was where I remembered.
  261. Ahhhh, finally read @brandonnn's GOTY list, and I got a mention! boingboing.net/2014/12/22/the-20-games-you-shouldnt-mi.html ahhhhhhh! (also, /really/ good list)
  262. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb there's still time!
  263. …in reply to @robertpeacock22
    @robertpeacock22 I just shave in the shower? I should probably learn normal shaving at some point.
  264. …in reply to @robertpeacock22
    @robertpeacock22 I just do it by feel... Sometimes I tidy up afterwards in the mirror.
  265. …in reply to @robertpeacock22
    @robertpeacock22 (it works as well if you remember not to dry your face when you get out)
  266. RT @KommanderKlobb: I just made this list of animals in Smog/Bill Callahan songs: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1idl8yebd2b4Sdth8_28ptI8zaS36xtFO4XlsPKwRfC8/edit?usp=sharing #christmasclearup (cc @topfife)
  267. RT @wordgeeksarah: 1. I'm not really convinced #AntoinoMartin had a gun. 2. But I don't know. He might've. 3. MISSOURI IS AN OPEN CARRY STA…
  268. RT @Hozay__: Let's say he was armed. Why was he allowed to die? Why was no ambulance called? His mother prevented from comforting him? Stuf…
  269. …in reply to @helvetica
    @helvetica we've been using RageTools and have been abusing it a bit (lots of SVGs, high quality etc). But it works.
  270. …in reply to @helvetica
    @helvetica as with @chrisoshea, perf hit of rendering at runtime means we generate them ahead of time. SVG colours -> vert colors.
  271. …in reply to @helvetica
    @helvetica then whatever you want to do to recolor via a normal material.
  272. …in reply to @helvetica
    @helvetica well, endless issues and workarounds. But it's got better, and it does work. And we're abusing it, so.
  273. …in reply to @lingmops
    @lingmops aww (sympathy fav)
  274. …in reply to @lauraehall
    @lauraehall ahhh, great! I don't even think it's from me pointing at them for publicity shots...
  275. RT @clairestrickett: On the plus side, parents' houses are full of CHEESE.
  276. everyone up, merry christmas!
  277. RT @vpkivimaki: Cute. NSA quietly releases reports on Christmas eve of unlawful intelligence collection over a decade. http://t.co/ZhOKvqWc…
  278. …in reply to @ntlk
    @ntlk metal spoon, filled with brandy, set it alight in there, then pour it, flaming, over. obv the pudding is covered already.
  279. …in reply to @ntlk
    @ntlk like, a metal ladle, tho
  280. …in reply to @paullicino
    @paullicino thank god that nightmare is over
  281. ignoring family, and on laptop thinking about math while drinking champagne.
  282. …in reply to @undefined
    @caraellison COLOUR ME UNSURPRISED you would write a story that is sexy and a bit depressing.
  283. …in reply to @undefined
    @caraellison PS merry christmas. Is Australia treating you well?
  284. …in reply to @v21
    @v21 dad came by and refilled my glass
  285. …in reply to @leighalexander
    @leighalexander whaaaa, they're the best! what the hell are you gonna do with one big paperclip?
  286. …in reply to @mink_ette
    @mink_ette small child opening dad's present for him, asked "what do you think he got?" "frozen" "does grandad like frozen?" "frozen"
  287. …in reply to @lauraehall
    @lauraehall @ADAMATOMIC @infinite_ammo some things are worth getting angry about.
  288. …in reply to @lauraehall
    @lauraehall @ADAMATOMIC @infinite_ammo reminded of a study that said friendly, happy people are more likely to avoid reading bad news.
  289. …in reply to @v21
    @leighalexander wait actually I take that back, I got marbles.
  290. RT @jackferencz: saw a ~13yr old girl scream 'my aesthetic doesnt define me, i define my aesthetic!!!' at her mother in an urban outfitters…
  291. Only drink from laminar flows.
  292. …in reply to @mink_ette
    @mink_ette @HilariousCow I do believe you'll both come into your own soon.
  293. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth @devbradmarr @Twitter like: early abuse reports mean user gets hellbanned for a week.
  294. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth @devbradmarr @Twitter the point is they employ a lot of smart people and have a lot of resources. They just don't care.
  295. …in reply to @devbradmarr
    @devbradmarr @psychicteeth @Twitter yeah, different term for hellbanning.
  296. …in reply to @v21
    @psychicteeth @devbradmarr @Twitter once, they had a serious spam problem. They made it a priority, and now it's just an irritant.
  297. FINALLY played Guts of Glory. It's great!
  298. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe yeah, I had it since the kickstarter, only just now played it. But now I have, I would def be up for playing it more.
  299. Haven't watched normal tv for ages. I didn't realize there were so many ads for mobile games.
  300. …in reply to @Poxican
    @Poxican clash of clans and a racing game so far
  301. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @doougle yeah, played this recently, it's good!
  302. …in reply to @v21
    @v21 I had high hopes for the Good Omens radio play, but it is very Radio 4 radio play, and apparently that is a thing that never changes.
  303. …in reply to @_JakeTucker
    @_JakeTucker I didn't say it was bad!
  304. …in reply to @_JakeTucker
    @_JakeTucker I mean, it's what you'd expect from a Radio 4 comic play featuring Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap? Only heard the first ep.
  305. …in reply to @PeteOlympian
    @PeteOlympian yeah! that grated on me loads at first, but i settled into it by the end. Silky silky Serafinowicz, though!
  306. Ugh, waking from dreams after getting on really quite well with someone cute who you'd arranged to see again in a few days time.
  307. RT @iLkKke: GraFX2 has some nifty palette-study scripts made by Dawnbringer. Here's @lexaloffle pico-8 16col palette #pixelart http://t.co/…
  308. RT @warsan_shire: 'you can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.' - bertolt brecht
  309. Listening to Sunday Girl and Sunday Girl (French version) on loop.
  310. RT @MelanieKKing: Made a little blog so you can see our previous cyanotype works & follow our progress in Goa storyoflight-cyanotype.tumblr.com http:/…
  311. …in reply to @pintendo64
    @pintendo64 wait, you can see your eyes?
  312. …in reply to @pintendo64
    @pintendo64 i mean, I guess we're always seeing our eyes #deep
  313. I just realised I've eaten nothing today that isn't cake.
  314. …in reply to @pippinbarr
    @pippinbarr "Harrow, London"?
  315. …in reply to @pippinbarr
    @pippinbarr oh, just wondering if you were in my town
  316. i have friends who failed degrees because of WoW @voxel/548946658822991873/photo/1
  317. …in reply to @undefined
    @mooonmagic big smile on my face
  318. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern don't be mean about @asponge
  319. RT @DalrympleWill: Love this word... and so know this feeling...
  320. …in reply to @pippinbarr
    @pippinbarr I am also, and have not very much important going on the next week. If you wanna hang, let me know!
  321. …in reply to @jennschiffer
    @jennschiffer I get the small (400g here, but that means nothing to you) store baked loaves, but even then they're too much. (hi)
  322. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    .@HilariousCow some day i'll make a game about the flying i did in dreams as a child
  323. …in reply to @v21
    @HilariousCow I guess there was that ill-conceived advergame we made for Azaelia Banks.. the flying in that was close..
  324. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @patrickashe absolutely no regrets.
  325. …in reply to @undefined
    @caraellison can you tell @hollygramazio that @haikus_by_KN is real, and that you aren't just sleeping in the street?
  326. …in reply to @raiganburns
    @raiganburns @vectorpoem there's still plenty of good stuff to steal from film! it's just ... that shouldn't be the extent of our ambitions.
  327. …in reply to @raiganburns
    @raiganburns @vectorpoem AAA chasing is it bad, but mainly because it's a monoculture. the future of games is every which way.
  328. RT @nice_tips_bot: beware, remember to wear clothes on the first try.
  329. "the biggest contributor for foreign volunteers for Islamic State after Saudi Arabia and Tunisia is the UK" pando.com/2014/12/25/listen-to-the-war-nerd-christmas-special/
  330. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin she wasn't sure
  331. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin do you feel like hannahnicklin is a separate identity from Hannah Nicklin?
  332. …in reply to @DinkMagic
    @DinkMagic @psychicteeth The Twelve Dates of Christmas is a pretty good film if you like that sort of thing?
  333. RT @steveklabnik: Don't forget, industries lobbying the gov't to protect their interests need disrupting. SV asking for immigration reform…
  334. RT @null_fruit: I needed to read this today, and maybe you do, too.
  335. A friend has been making a thing and it's totally cool and neat and funny, and just found out I helped inspire it. 😻
  336. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 why have a weirdo syntax if it doesn't allow arbitrary delimiters? (to get around the escaping problem, properly)
  337. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 or is that a single character arbitrary delimiter you've proposed? in which case, why single char specifically?
  338. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 thinking on the validity of: '(something( '(something) '!something! '"something"
  339. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 I think I'd prefer: '@'something@ 'delimiter'some textdelimiter (I like the ' to be closed, and I like multiple char delimiter)
  340. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 this proposal informed by this mailing list thread : mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-September/005635.html
  341. Remembering the game I made at a gamejam where you hand someone a cardboard box wrapped up in a blanket and pretend it's a baby.
  342. …in reply to @v21
    @v21 You roleplay that they're the babysitter, and you coo over the baby, nervous at leaving them with a sitter for the first time.
  343. …in reply to @v21
    @v21 then you leave, and see how long they hold the box for.
  344. …in reply to @koalahamlet
    @koalahamlet I just ate a creme egg. My flatmate got me one from the shops because I showed her I already had one when she jokingly
  345. …in reply to @koalahamlet
    @koalahamlet offered to get one from the shops. It's that kind of friendship.
  346. RT @lorenschmidt: The Tenth Sentiment / 10番目の感傷(点・線・面) youtu.be/8EBF0qOKpns
  347. …in reply to @Superpig
    @Superpig maybe? I think it was a krispy kreme box folded up.
  348. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth it'll just be another reason to use a platform like Humble...
  349. I got a haircut from a hairdresser for the first time in many years and I look really different.
  350. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry I don't know if I like it yet!
  351. …in reply to @nursegirlt
    @nursegirlt @caraellison @KaraOTR Worse than that, actually: women feel the same effect (I think : def with students speaking in class)
  352. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN never hurts to be reminded! again and again and again
  353. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN hm! Often I feel the opposite. I'm all up for intellectually dissecting a thing, not so much for just... letting people vent.
  354. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN It can just be about sharing problems and being among friends, not crusading for a better world.
  355. The part of my job where I explain how to use Git to non-technical people is not my favorite part of my job
  356. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN It's not mine! Click through and you can see the orig author.
  357. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN Nah, the "linking to a embedded twitter picture makes it look like an original post til expanded" is pretty high-level.
  358. …in reply to @raiganburns
    @raiganburns probably why it spends the majority of it's time as a 2D platformer
  359. …in reply to @v21
    @raiganburns (I mean, _technically_ it's 3D, but the level is basically "run to the right")
  360. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern i reckon ghosts fly the way you do in dreams -- lot of effort to be at heights greater/smaller than normal.
  361. love the way i can't select text in tweets on web-twitter any more
  362. …in reply to @PennyRed
    @PennyRed You just have to not sleep!
  363. I once saw James Corden do the "hilarious" thing of pretending he'd won a raffle when he hadn't. Congratulations on your OBE!
  364. …in reply to @undefined
    @caraellison good diagram!
  365. …in reply to @brandonnn
    @brandonnn @caraellison Ahh, that one stresses me out. Everything I know is obvious (to me).
  366. …in reply to @v21
    @brandonnn @caraellison my best bet is to go deep/go weird, then make things I'll like then test whether they strike a chord with others.
  367. #dudetime